Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A young Black man was held in the Vicksburg, Mississippi jail when a mob took him from the custody of the sheriff. According to a brief item in the Jones County News published January 28, 1915, the mob shot him to death. The account gives the shooting by the mob as the cause of his death.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: Jones County News (reporters).